Re: [ga] Response to Joe

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 05:55:02PM -0700, Bret Fausett wrote:
> Joe Sims wrote:
> > No it would not.
> 
> Let's end the discussion here because we're not going to convince each
> other. It's simply incomprehensible to me that the greater ICANN community
> would not have benefitted from listening to the "several hours over two days
> of uninterrupted discussion" that the Board engaged in.
> Neither a paper nor
> the hour and half that we'll get in Bucharest will be an adequate
> substitute. The fact that some Board members are uncomfortable thinking out
> loud in public suggests to me that we need different Board members, not that
> ICANN should countenance important discussions behind closed doors. Open up
> all the Board meetings and allow those who are uncomfortable with that kind
> of process to decide not to serve. It's a big world. Surely ICANN can find
> 19 competent people willing to serve the public in public.

That is, you want politicians as board members. 

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                          lonesome."  -- Mark Twain

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